This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur's sensitivity and deep word hoard to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavic developed an "internal GPS" and a minimalist style, which helped him to establish a critical sense of home and to create a culture of sustainability.

Gerald Gaylard is a Professor of English at the University of the Witwatersrand. Author of After Colonialism: African Postmodernism and Magical Realism (2006) and editor of Marginal Spaces: Reading Ivan Vladislavic (2011), he has published primarily in the area of postcolonial culture, literature, and aesthetics.

Ivan Vladislavic's Biography

Historical Formalism: A Methodology

Introduction

Monuments and Resistance

Missing Persons

The Folly

Propaganda by Monuments

An African Flaneur

The Restless Supermarket

The Exploded View

Portrait with Keys

Ecologies of Home

The Loss Library, A Labour of Moles, Milnerton Market

Double Negative

101 Detectives

The Distance

The Story Continues From Here...

Bibliography

Index